🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Amazing day out to see Ciudad Bolivar with the best tour guide ever Gonzalo Lizarralde

My latest book is published! For a nuanced understanding of gender, critical take on resilience and layered understanding of infrastructure, aspirations and violence in the city, please get a copy! practicalactionpublishing.com/book/2704/gend…

So excited to see Dr Hanna Ruszczyk’s book out! 🤩🤩🤩 (And even more excited to have a signed copy on my bookshelf now -personally delivered to me by the author 🤓🥰)

Really looking forward to this 3-day conference on #overlookedcities taking place in the historic city of Bandung, Indonesia. Big congrats on the Overlooked Cities Collective for organising this important event of South-East/South collaboration overlookedcities.org #usf

MAJOR UPDATE: All planetary boundaries are assessed, and six are crossed. For the first time ever, scientists have quantified all nine planetary boundaries. Six of them are already transgressed and we are increasing pressure on the others. Read more: buff.ly/45Ps1QG

New book! 'Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife'. Short blog here on what the book is about (published with Verso & freely available here durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1728967): cityfragment.wordpress.com/2023/09/18/was… A big thank you to all who helped make this happen!

IHRR research associate Dr Hanna Ruszczyk Dr Hanna Ruszczyk has co-authored a publication in Urban Geography on climate change and crisis narratives. Find out more: durham.ac.uk/research/insti…

Join us starting tomorrow in South Africa for a dialogue with ordinary and overlooked cities! 21 speakers from 3 continents.

We are saddened by the loss of Prof Saleemul Huq, a longstanding IHRR friend & advisor. His compassionate dedication to climate change and commitment to collaborative research for the world's poorest and most vulnerable will not be forgotten.

New issue out now on Decolonial Feminist Explorations of Urban Futures urbangeographyjournal.org/journal/volume…

19 fiction books by Palestinian authors: novels, short stories, and folktales. 1. My First and Only Love (2021) by Shahar Khalifeh. Nidal, an elderly exile, recounts the story when the 1948 Nakba scattered her family; a story of love and resistance from the eyes of a young girl.

On Feb 28th our very own Jonny Darling & Dr Hanna Ruszczyk will take part in a film screening & panel discussion with Dr Ian McDonald (Newcastle University) around his documentary film 'Who is Europe?' This 'Global Week' event is hosted by CVACinDURHAM details: tinyurl.com/6ucxkd2f

If you think fertilized eggs are people but parents who've crossed the oceans with their kids aren't, stop pretending your concerns are religious.

“Death is better than this.” Shocking images of starving, emaciated children from inside Gaza are laying bare the desperation inside the strip, as Nada Bashir reports.

127 children killed per-day in Auschwitz in 5 years. 139 children killed per day in Gaza in 135 days. Just like there can be no justification for the Holocaust, there can be no justification for the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. Both deserve the same condemnation.

“More children have been killed by Israel in Gaza than have been killed in all armed conflicts globally, every year, over the past four years.” —Save the Children President and CEO, Janti Soeripto Read that again.

Exciting event! Check "Overlookedness: Where do we go from here?" part of the #USFSeminarSeries "Overlooked Cities: Thinking and doing global urban studies differently" In person and Online, June 10-11th, 9:15 (GMT+1). More information and registration: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/events/overloo…

From the Instagram of UNICEF spokesman James Elder:

The Fourth of July is about celebrating the big, bold, inclusive experiment that is our American democracy. And it has always been an experiment. Our democracy has never been guaranteed, which means we can’t take it for granted. We need to keep fighting for it, keep improving it,

Domestic abuse spikes 26% when England plays, 38% if they lose, and 11% the day after, win or lose. Women's safety is at the mercy of men who can’t control themselves over a football game. Yet women are labelled emotional and crazy.